(In this case, the who is a moustache-twirler played by Welshman Luke Evans, looking like the evilest parts of Jude Law and Leonardo DiCaprio mashed up.) Modern action movies focus so much on the scramble - pornographically so - that they forget the life part. The great action movies are about life and the scramble to preserve it, no matter how or who or what threatens to take it away. Luc Besson’s classics " La Femme Nikita" and " The Professional" bet everything on giant matching close-ups, late in the game, of two people desperately in love, facing each other for what could be the last time. A recent Hollywood example is the tearful meeting of donut-eating flatfoot Al Powell and battered New York cop John McClane at the end of " Die Hard," after they’ve bonded all night over police radio. Every action director should study the way a father almost loses a son in De Sica’s " The Bicycle Thief" and an old man almost loses a dog in his " Umberto D": Heartstopping, and then heartbreaking. Vittorio De Sica would have aced one of these flicks. They love these raggedly human things, and it’s the filmmaker’s job to withhold them at times to force viewers to face the possibility that they might never enjoy them again, then bring them back from the narrative dead with an invigorating flourish. The Rock) and first-timer Gina Carano (" Haywire") into their shit-talking fold. They love the way these show-offs talk shit with each other and initiate relative newcomers like Dwayne Johnson (a.k.a. They love the shy, sweet courtship between Han ( Sung Kang) and Gisele ( Gal Gadot). They love the horribly written but charmingly performed banter between sidemen Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Tyrese Gibson. They love Vin Diesel’s marble-mouthed charisma and Paul Walker’s earnest aqua blue eyes (framed, in the film’s most spectacular shot, between fire engine-red prison bars). If anybody loves this ridiculous cycle of crime operas, it’s because they love things like Rodriguez’s scowl, which is ten times prettier than her smile (which is pretty damn pretty itself). It’s about disappearances, intervals of grief and longing, entrances, exits and grand reunions. When Letty finally showed up alive onscreen, there were gasps and murmurs among my fellow moviegoers. Now, that’s what I’m talking about! A long-running franchise like this one is about the familiarity and comfort of friendship. She was Vin Diesel’s girlfriend in "Fast" One and Four in the latter, she was presumed killed by a drug lord’s henchman. Letty ( Michelle Rodriguez) is alive, apparently.
One of their homies thought long dead has been photographed among the suspects. They’re all millionaires living in far-flung tropical hideaways now, so what could convince them to help the feds? I tuned out the title music and imagined Ray Charles and Norah Jones softly crooning “Here We Go Again” over the running, squalling, ass-slapping and killing. This time around, the members of this street-racing, carjacking gang-turned-A-Team come out of retirement to help an international counter-terrorism manhunt. Justin Lin is a playfully bombastic director, but his wise-ass sensibility goes missing in one of the key areas where he could leverage this trash into trash art: the soundtrack. We see various beatdowns, jiggling bikinis and vehicular massacres set to the thump of a generic hip-hop track. We glimpse Paul Walker and Vin Diesel in the early days, slightly slimmer, swifter and lighter of voice. Yet, "Fast 6" is still cold-blooded and brutal enough for the children.Ī kind of name-in-the-stars paean happens in the opening credits, a montage of moments from all over the series.
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"Fast 6" wants to give them a little commencement present akin to " Star Trek VI," which actually put a lump in my throat when it ended by having the TV icons of my youth sign their names across the stars. Whoever was a teen or tween back then, finding in these photogenic badasses the epitome of cool, is now likely sweating over rent and taxes.
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When this series started 12 years ago, they were still hot young Hollywood upstarts. The regular cast members are all either approaching 40 or well into their forties. So it is with "Fast & Furious 6," which is arguably the most sentimental of the "Fast" flicks.
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